Knowledge, expectations, and inductive reasoning within conceptual hierarchies

Cognition

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-253

  Coley, John D ^a   Hayes, Brett ^b   Lawson, Christopher ^c   Moloney, Michelle ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Conceptual hierarchies; Expectations; Inductive reasoning; Knowledge; Living kinds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIFE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OAK; PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0344688151     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00159-8     Document Type: Article

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